I had used VLC player a while back to save some recordings I had on my cable company issued DVR. It worked pretty well to record standard def, and I was even able to record non encrypted HD content. In VLC, all I did was select the source and set the output as file, and it worked fine to dump the ra...
scientific atlanta SA8300HD cablebox. I rip content I have recorded on my DVR that is provided by my cable company. I do this using the firewire port on the back of the box, and connect to my PC. I used the drivers available with firestb (google it if u need them) so Windows XP recognizes my cablebo...
try asf wmv in order to get WMP to understand it. j-b: I have been trying several different combinations of encoding/transcoding/etc. I did make some progress when I tried asf, but let me actually restate my intentions: My goal is not to get it to work in WMP. My goal is to get it recognizable as a...
OK, I have spent several days trying to extract video from my cable company provided DVR. Several channels are not marked as copy protected, which means I can pull them via firewire to my laptop. That is now all working fine after several hours of trying to figure it out. VLC player does a GREAT job...